ananas [əˈnænəs]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) another name for the pineapple, or for a related tropical American bromeliaceous plant, the pinguin, that has an edible plum-shaped fruit
[from the native name in Peru]
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| Noun | 1. |  Ananas - a genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples)liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed Bromeliaceae, family Bromeliaceae, pineapple family - a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance Ananas comosus, pineapple, pineapple plant - a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics |
| 2. |  ananas - large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivatededible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh Ananas comosus, pineapple, pineapple plant - a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics |
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